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This study shows that enhancement of soil fertility along with the yield of chickpea due to nodulation by the Rhizobium is possible to some extent. Data on plant height (cm) at maturity, primary branches/plant, days to flower, pods/plant, pod dry weight/plant (g), seeds/pod, seed dry weight/pod (g), 50 seeds weight (g), nodules/plant, fresh weight of nodules/plant and dry weight of nodules/plan...

Three-year trials (2006-2008) were conducted in order to determine the influence of the herbicide diflufenican (trade name – Pelikan 50 CK) on certain biological traits of Bulgarian common bean cultivar Plovdiv 15 M. The herbicide was applied in the doses of 200, 250 and 300 ml/ha after the sowing and before the growth of the plants. It has been found that the traits related to the height of th...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the major legume crops grown in Pakistan having a considerable importance as a food, feed and fodder but due to imbalanced use of fertilizers its production is low. To find the optimum level of Phosphorus and FYM for chickpea and study their effect on agronomic characteristics an experiment was carried out at the Agricultural Research Farm of NWFP Agricul...

This paper reviews a range of the most popular policy evaluation methods in empirical microeconomics: social experiments, natural experiments, matching methods, instrumental variables, discontinuity design and control functions. It discusses the identification of both the traditionally used average parameters and the more demanding distributional parameters. In each case, the necessary assumpti...

Introduction There is a trend in information retrieval to an increased involvement of context. The success of recent workshops at SIGIR [8] and the subsequent 2006 IIiX Symposium, the SIGIR exploratory search workshop, and the outcome of the 2004 SWIRL workshop [21] are indicators that elements of user context are both sort and becoming available. “The provision of tools...can yield great rewar...

We revisit the much-studied problem of space-efficiently estimating the number of triangles in a graph stream, and extensions of this problem to counting fixed-sized cliques and cycles. For the important special case of counting triangles, we give a 4-pass, (1± ε)-approximate, randomized algorithm using Õ(ε−2 m3/2/T ) space, where m is the number of edges and T is a promised lower bound on the ...

Crowdsourced top-k computation aims to utilize the human ability to identify top-k objects from a given set of objects. Most of existing studies employ a pairwise comparison based method, which first asks workers to compare each pair of objects and then infers the top-k results based on the pairwise comparison results. Obviously, it is quadratic to compare every object pair and these methods in...

One hundred twenty six Recombinant Inbred Lines (RILs) derived from a cross ICCV-2 x JG 62 along with six checks were evaluated to study the genetic divergence. Mahalonobis (1936) D statistic analysis was used for assessing the genetic divergence among the RIL’s involving phenological and yield component traits. The 132 genotypes formed 15 clusters and out of which 8 clusters were solitary sugg...